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Speculation Snoke Theories

re: TCF-1138's elucidation --- The Father, Son and Daughter are not EU -- they are Canon. 100%

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Not to pick nits, but all EU is canon now. You're confusing EU and Legends. TCW is EU because it's not in the movies, but it's also canon. So the request for more info for people who don't delve much into the EU was legitimate.

re: TCF-1138's elucidation --- The Father, Son and Daughter are not EU -- they are Canon. 100%

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Not to pick nits, but all EU is canon now. You're confusing EU and Legends. TCW is EU because it's not in the movies, but it's also canon. So the request for more info for people who don't delve much into the EU was legitimate.

Seriously though, I believe you're right; I don't think they're calling it the EU anymore. But technically the books, comics and shows still expand the universe beyond what is seen in the "main attraction" so to speak - i.e. the movies.

Let me ask a question... the Whills, in the books or other media, have been defined? Is it possible that Snoke is one of them?

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Huh, haven't thought about that! Or heard that theory before.
And no, the Whills are still a mystery. It's possible the priestesses in the last arc of TCW were Whills, but we have no confirmation of that.
So yeah. It is possible that Snoke is a Whill. I doubt it, but it's possible. And that could actually be quite cool.

Let me ask a question... the Whills, in the books or other media, have been defined? Is it possible that Snoke is one of them?

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Huh, haven't thought about that! Or heard that theory before.
And no, the Whills are still a mystery. It's possible the priestesses in the last arc of TCW were Whills, but we have no confirmation of that.
So yeah. It is possible that Snoke is a Whill. I doubt it, but it's possible. And that could actually be quite cool.

While many Force ghosts could appear as a vision of their former selves unmarked by injury or disease,[3] others still bore the marks of what killed them. The ghost of Aidan Bok wore tattered robes and had gaping wounds in its body, the marks left by a lightsaber.

One could make the case that under the NU-Canon -- and considering Yoda and Obi-Wan [and I guess Anakin] just learned about Force-Ghosting --- from a Shaman of the Whills -- then we get R1 with the Temple of the Whills and Guardians not necessarily even being capable of wielding the Force --- and if you even want to consider Filoni almost got a scene with the Son speaking to Revan and Bane...

Well, I think just who can be and what it means to be a Force Ghost is no longer subject to the confusion of the PT. It could easily be Ret-Conned and Cherry-Picked as to what eventually is Canon.

I mean -- who is Yoda who just learned how to do it to say who can and can't? For that matter, who is GL who just reinvented it to say who or who can't? And he doesn't even own the ability to say that anymore.

But Snoke...a Whill? Nah -- I don't see it. He may the ancient enemy of the Whills though...

Darth Bane's appearance in TCW sets the stage for his appearance as Snoke perfectly, as well as the Whills. Luke could be searching for them as a way to defeat BaneSnoke.

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"perfectly"

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If you've seen the last episode, you'd see that Yoda encounters the Force priestesses as well as Bane. It would make sense if that unresolved arc carried into the ST.

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Would it though? Most people haven't seen The Clone Wars, and wouldn't know who Darth Bane is.
Not to mention that Yoda doesn't actually encounter Bane. As the priestesses say: "Everything that has transpired here has been our making" (or something to that effect). Bane was just a vision, which is why Yoda basically just dismissed him; "Dead you are, already".

I think we will not know who Snoke is even after episode 8.
Just think that in Saga we barely see Emperor.
We are getting lots of details about Darth Vader, but still few details about Emperor(senator Palpatine).
If Disney and Lucasfilm keeps this way of making the movie, than we will have episode 9 and after, we will have a movie with either Kylo Ren either Rey childhood.
Or we will have separate movies or whatever possibilities, I think Disney will make movies with both Kylo Ren and Rey childhood and is possible to be same movies etc.

So, I do not think in next 2-3 years we will get too many clues about who Snoke (new Emperor) is.

We probably won't get a lot of back story on Snoke, but I expect TLJ to tell us what the conflict between him and Luke is; what Luke's been doing on Ahch-To, what Snoke is after, that sort of things. As a result, we'll end up knowing a bit more about who/what Snoke is.